DocumentCode
1515165
Title
Double speak in America
Author
Pei, Mario
Author_Institution
New York: Hawthorne Books
Issue
2
fYear
1981
fDate
6/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
102
Lastpage
103
Abstract
Mario Pei discusses several sets of “weasel words.” Be on your guard, this author warns: these are words “used and misused not through habit, inadvertence, and accident, but coined or distorted, and then put into circulation by deliberate design, for purposes of deception” (p. 1). His earlier book on the same subject was called Words in Sheep´s Clothing.
Keywords
Advertising; Art; Government; Public relations; Reliability; Terminology;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0361-1434
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TPC.1981.6447849
Filename
6447849
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